BBP42

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1. Considering switch to home health

   BBP42 replied to LatteRN's topic in Home Health

   I also worked SNF prior to home health and found it a natural transition. The wound care and postop care at home was similar to the patients I was caring for at the rehab, the OASIS assessments at home ask the same type of questions as the GG questio...

2. New Nurse in Home Health

   BBP42 replied to CookieRoo9413's topic in Home Health

   I was able to find a home health position which gave benefits for 24 hour employees at a slightly higher cost than those working 30+. I chose to work 3 days on salary with the ability to pick up extra patients on other days at a per diem rate. Often ...

3. HOME HEALTH

   BBP42 replied to Becky Thompson's topic in Home Health

   If I understand you correctly, yes. If the surgeon is signing for the overall plan of care for a postop patient, and the primary care MD orders something new, say a change in medication, where I work we would send an order for that med change to the ...

4. Home Health Nursing for Busy Mothers with Lots of Children?!

   BBP42 replied to kat1822's topic in Career Support

   As a mom who has done home health over the last 5 years, I think that it is possible to see your patients within school hours and I often wrap up my charting after the kids' bedtime to spend time with them. Depends on agency expectations. Where I wor...

5. National Standard Productivity

   BBP42 replied to mukluk2's topic in Home Health

   I work for 2 home health agencies in CT. Both have a 30 pt per week full time salaried expectation. One agency gives 3 points per soc or roc, 2 for recert and 1 for revisit. The documentation at this agency is much more time consuming. The other agen...

6. Skipping Pinning

   BBP42 replied to oldie's topic in General Students

   I went to pinning. A small ceremony with the students who survived clinical and studied with me and faculty I knew. I skipped graduation, with a thousand other students herded through to collect a piece of paper from some college official I never saw...

7. Is this normal? Or should I move on?

   BBP42 replied to donnydilaudid's topic in Home Health

   I have been a home health RN the last 5 years, currently working a salaried benefitted 24 hour position at a large hospital based agency and per diem for a smaller agency. At both agencies, I have always had so many patients that there was unlimited ...

8. Eye protection for ALL patient interaction

   BBP42 replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

   My current primary employer now requires eye protection for all patient contact. Very annoying to me as I am not a fan of wearing goggles over glasses or the face shields that get in my way. I was working extra shifts for them, now I cut back to my s...

9. can I negotiate salary in my first HH staff nurse job?

   BBP42 replied to allthesmallthings's topic in Home Health

   I currently hold positions with 2 home health agencies covering the same area. The one that falls under the umbrella of our large hospital system expected me to request a salary when I applied then made a counteroffer of a small amount less than I as...

10. Case Management vs Care Coordination

    BBP42 replied to 5228shamrock's topic in General Nursing

    Home health RN here. In my company, Nurse Care Coordinators are office staff who triage who needs visits that day and check in with patients who are referred and waiting to start services, coordinate with IV companies and MD offices. Nurse Case Manag...

11. Resignation, What To Do With Accrued PTO??

    BBP42 replied to J89Mike's topic in General Nursing

    The last employer I left offered me the option of having PTO accrued paid out in three equal amounts in weekly checks to minimize taxes. I did not take them up on it as I would just as soon have it paid into taxes and owe less come next spring. I did...

12. Rising insurance premiums through work

    BBP42 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think he may have meant to say WITHOUT having a PCP? In my state at one time that was true, they required you to see a PCP as part of setting up a Medicaid account and they were named on your medicaid card. I do not believe my state has this as a r...

13. Scared.....No Nursing?

    BBP42 replied to Name9335's topic in General Nursing

    I remember working at a nursing home where we had to call several different MDs regularly for labs or change in condition, and there was one everybody dreaded calling because he always asked for a ton of information that others didn't and had no pati...

14. First Job: Rehab or Homecare

    BBP42 replied to tatyfreedom's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like rehab is a better first job because you would theoretically have other nurses working around you that you could turn to if you were unsure of how to handle a situation. In homecare it is just you with 911 for backup. If you mean homecare ...

15. Medicare SN frequencies

    BBP42 replied to JjemRN's topic in Home Health

    I don't know if that breaks any rules but our software does not allow for 0 in the frequency box. So we need to either write a number for every 2 weeks or for monthly as another poster suggested for our system to accept it.